I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion.
CLARENCE DARROWAny one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
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History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history.
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Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.
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Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
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The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
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The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
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The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.
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